| Main entry | Bayley, Diana |
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| Birth place | London, England |
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| Birth date | c1787-93 |
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| Death place | Bridport, Dorset, England |
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| Death date | 21 March 1868 |
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| Identifier | 0160 |
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| Birth name | Diana Naylor |
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| Alternate names | D.B. |
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| Married name | Bayley |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Biography | Diana (Naylor) Bayley (c1787-1868) led a peripatetic life as the wife of British army officer Henry Addington Bayley (c1793-1882). She lived in Ireland, where her eldest son was born, in Barbados in the mid-1820s and in Lower Canada in the early 1830s. She first resided on Isle aux Noix, then in Montreal, moving to Kingston in the 1840s. Before she came to Canada, she published a juvenile story, TALES OF THE HEATH (1825), and a travel account, SCENES AT HOME AND ABROAD (1827). In Canada she continued her writing, contributing poems, stories and sketches to the MONTREAL MUSEUM and the LITERARY GARLAND. Specializing in moral tales, she was the first Canadian resident to write children's literature. Her son, Frederick William Naylor Bayley, who became a literary journalist in England, predeceased his mother by fifteen years. |
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| Other notes | Was possibly born 15 July 1787. |
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| Residences | London, England; Ireland; Barbados (1825-1829); Isle aux Noix; Montreal (1837-38); Kingston, Ontario (1839-1842); Sorel; Marylebone, London (1851, 1861); Bridport, Dorset, England (1868) |
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| Geographic regions | Quebec; Ontario |
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| Primary genres | fiction (juvenile) |
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| Books | TALES OF THE HEATH (1825); EMPLOYMENT THE TRUE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS: OR, THE GOOD UNCLE AND AUNT (1825); SCENES AT HOME AND ABROAD (1827); IMPROVEMENT: OR, A VISIT TO GRANDMA (1832); HENRY: OR, THE JUVENILE TRAVELLER (1836) |
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| Periodicals | LITERARY GARLAND; MONTREAL GAZETTE; MONTREAL MUSEUM |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Whyte-Edgar, WREATH OF CANADIAN SONG (1910) |
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| Father's name | William Naylor (?) |
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| Mother's name | Mary (?) |
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| Spouse 1 | Henry Addington Bayley |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | c1793, London, England - 11 October 1882, Dorset, England |
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| Spouse 1 note | Officer in British Army; Deputy Assistant to Commissary General |
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| Marriage 1 date | 21 June 1821 |
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| Marriage 1 place | St. Pancras, England |
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| Children number | 3? |
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| Children's names and dates | Frederick William Naylor (1807-1852), m. to Isabella Dix;
Henry Lambert (?);
Mary (1822 - ) |
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| Biographical references | Morgan, Henry, BIBLIOTHECA CANADENSIS (1867); 1851 England Census; 1861 England Census; Dorset, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-2001; England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915; London, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812; London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921; Pallot's Marriage Index for England: 1780-1837 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 243; CIHM |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Image credits | Line drawing by Una Vernelli (Vancouver, British Columbia). |
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| Copyright | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 1980-2014. |
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